Ishion Hutchinson

Ishion Hutchinson
At UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems in 2023
Born (1983-08-22) August 22, 1983
Port Antonio, Jamaica
EducationUniversity of the West Indies;
New York University;
University of Utah
OccupationsPoet
Professor[1]

Ishion Hutchinson (born 22 August 1983)[2] is a Jamaican poet and essayist.

Biography

Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.[3] After attending Titchfield High School,[4] he received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah.[5][3]

His poetry and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), Narrative, New Letters, Granta, Gulf Coast, The New York Review of Books, The Huffington Post, The Wolf (UK), Prairie Schooner,[6] Attica, Caribbean Review of Books, and the Los Angeles Review.[3]

Hutchinson currently teaches courses in poetry and creative writing at Cornell University and serves as contributing editor to the literary journal Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.[7]

Awards and honors

His first collection, Far District, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK), won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.[8] Hutchinson is also the recipient of the 2013 Whiting Award[9] and the 2011 Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize.[10] His 2016 collection, House of Lords and Commons, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.[11] He won a 2019 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry.[12] His 2023 collection, School of Instructions, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.[13]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Far District. Peepal Tree Press. 2010. ISBN 9781845231576.
  • House of Lords and Commons. Macmillan. 2016. ISBN 9780374173029.
  • School of Instructions: A Poem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. ISBN 9780374610265.
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The old professor's book 2018 "The old professor's book". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 28. 17 September 2018. p. 37.

References

  1. ↑ Orbison, Jake (6 July 2015). "Five Questions for Ishion Hutchinson". The Paris Review.
  2. ↑ Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville; Kuligowski, John, eds. (2023). Twenty-first-century African American poets. first series. Dictionary of literary biography. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, a Cengage Company. ISBN 978-0-02-867305-9.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ishion Hutchinson". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Handal, Nathalie (6 February 2017). "The City and the Writer: In Port Antonio, Jamaica, with Ishion Hutchinson". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  5. ↑ "University of Utah | Alumni Connection". ulink.utah.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "This Year's Award Winners | Whiting Writers' Awards | Programs | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation". whitingfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Department of English at Cornell University | People". english.arts.cornell.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  8. ↑ Bynoe, Holly (13 August 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson wins PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry". arcthemagazine.com. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ↑ Bosman, Julie (21 October 2013). "10 Receive Whiting Writers' Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  10. ↑ Philp, Geoffrey (17 May 2011). "Ishion Hutchinson Wins Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize". geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  11. ↑ Aloi, Daniel (20 March 2017). "Hutchinson wins National Book Critics Circle poetry award". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "Ishion Hutchinson". Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  13. ↑ "Ishion Hutchinson, Jamaica". griffinpoetryprize.com. Griffin Poetry Prize.
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